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Re: Adding values to a string [message #49038 is a reply to message #49037]

Thu, 08 June 2006 13:34

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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One way:

text='M5A,060530,181005,4302003340bf,1149012,,,,,15.70765,89 3.439514,7.73610973'

IDL> parts=STRSPLIT(text, ',', /EXTRACT, /PRESERVE_NULL)
IDL> parts[WHERE(parts eq '')] = '0'
IDL> newText = STRJOIN(parts, ',', /SINGLE)
IDL> print, newText
M5A,060530,181005,4302003340bf,1149012,0,0,0,0,15.70765,893. 439514,7.73610973

-Rick

rafaloos@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi ...
> I have a string like this:
>
> 'M5A,060530,181005,4302003340bf,1149012,,,,,15.70765,893.439 514,7.73610973'
>
> As you can see this string has some extra commas. Values were supposed
> to be in between these commas, but they are not.
>
> I want to ADD some zeros in the above string so that in the end my
> string will be like this:
>
> 'M5A,060530,181005,4302003340bf,1149012,0,0,0,0,15.70765,893 .4395141,7.73610973'
>
> Is there a easy way to do that ?
>
> Thank you
>

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